A YouTube video currently making the rounds across the internet showing a “UFO” destroying a Taliban camp is an obvious hoax.
While debunking videos isn’t exactly my forte, it’s worth it this time since The Daily Mail, The New York Daily News, International Business Times, and others have reported on the poorly-edited minute-and-a-half clip uploaded by “Section 51.”
Little green men may certainly exist, but it can’t be confirmed that they’ve fired on the Taliban. A quick perusal of the “Section 51” channel — with dozens of videos of soldiers and Marines encountering supposed “UFO’s” uploaded — should convince most this is a hoax, but let’s look at the video: